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My mother and father still live in the house that my 8 siblings and I grew up in. They have been there 43 years. I spoke to my mom recently about the possibility of creating an apartment for her in my sister’s house. She responded “Daddy...

Middle-Class Bathing in the 1970s I grew up as a member of an Irish Catholic family of nine kids in Chicago. We lived in a bungalow with two bedrooms and one bathroom. Fortunately, there was a toilet in the basement for emergencies. I often jokingly...

(Image courtesy of EnergyReady, a program of Baltimore’s Civic Works) Imagine lying on your roof, in a black outfit, on a sunny afternoon, in the middle of July. OK, you can go back inside now where your air conditioner is working WAY harder than...

To make your home greener, you don’t have to put sod on your roof, collect rain water in a cistern, and use a composting toilet. Not that there’s anything wrong with those things. But there are a few, far simpler ways to start making your home...

One of our favorite materials for floors and walls is natural Travertine. We used it here for the floor, base, and chair rail of this powder room. (The wainscot below the chair rail is a grasscloth wallcovering): So what is Travertine and what are the pros...

Hariri and Hariri’s Sagaponac House is a crisply detailed minimalist and modern dwelling arranged in an ‘L’ shape around a swimming pool. According to the sisters themselves, they were raised in Iran “subject to distinct, severe,...